Chap 4

Betrayal of a Sibling

Here's chapter four! Thank you all for your marvelous reviews. I find it hysterical that this one is so well liked because it's an 'AU' in my …ehem… official cannon story (Which I haven't posted yet). Haha. Anywho, enjoy. Next chapter is either tomorrow or the next.

Danny stared into his hot chocolate mug with empty, unseeing eyes, trembling slightly. Suddenly, a scream of utter fury blasted through the house, a voice echoing through the walls and into Danny's ears.

"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNYYYYYY YYYYYY!"

He flinched and met Danielle's furious gaze without another thought.

"Daniel Masterdon Fenton! How dare you… how could you…? I hate you right now." She fumbled for words to express her fury and Danny sighed, placing his hand on her shoulder, which she immediately brushed off.

"Danielle, sissy. I had to. You can't put yourself in danger like this. You almost died. I'm not taking a chance on your life, you're only—"

"Only a clone?" Dani hissed, her eyes narrowing into slits. She grabbed his shoulders and slammed him into a wall, the plaster cracking and splintering.

"That's not what I meant and you know it. Danielle, I love you like a sister. You are my sister. And so much more. I can't lose you. You are my little sister. I only took your powers temporarily. I'll give them back after this is all over. Promise."

Dani released him and hung her head. "My powers make me who I am. Without them, I'm only a freak that Vlad Masters made. I can't… please give them back."

The teenager pressed his lips together for a moment and then slowly shook his head. "Sorry, Danielle. You get them back after the creatures are gone. I'm not losing you because you let emotions get in the way. I would die for my friends, but there is a reason they only accompany me on less dangerous fights—I'd put their safety before anyone else. If I'm going to remain welcome in the town, I can't save Sammie or Tucker and let a nursery school take them fall and little kids die. Understand? You have to be blank, emotionless, and void of anything besides fighting spirit."

Danny sighed and placed his hand on her shoulder again, and smiled. "I love you very much. Be good, Sissy."

Another week went by, and soon the creatures were 'patrolling' the schools, coming in like they owned the place. They were naught but animals, without a conscious mind of evil plotting. Their history was well-known throughout the Ghost Zone, that being that they were 'the Devil's kitties'. The old ruler of the Ghost Zone, before Pariah Dark was, decided to create body guards. The scariest animals in the Real World were taken bits and pieces and made into one creature. However, after created, they had to be inserted into a female bear on Earth to make them be real creatures that could later die and become ghosts.

So, at the cost of one female bear, seven 'cubs' were born, vicious creatures that died by order of King Paha (Evil in Estonian) in the beginning of the Dark Ages. They had been contained by Walker and his high-maintenance prison, until it turned to rubble after Plasmius had destroyed it like the idiot he was.

The creatures could breed, one cub at a time. There were about five thousand of them now, and with Danny unable to fight like normal, Dani injured and now powerless, and the others human and unable to help, things were looking bad for Amity Park.

Well, there's chapter four. Sorry it's shorter than the rest but there should be only a few chapters let and they should be a good bit longer. Now, I'm off to see Hunger Games Double Feature at the theater*SQUEE!* Now if only Katniss Everdeen would randomly blow a flat tire in front of my house and phones are down so she'd have to stay the night.